Thread by @ScottHech

APPALLING: Cuomo just nominated Madeline Singas to be a judge on the highest court in NY. Singas hasn't just been brutally carceral as Nassau County DA. She also has been one of the most avid peddlers of fear & lies over justice reforms in NY. Just a few examples of many here:

After discovery reform passed in NY, Nassua DA & police were weaponizing a tragic murder to repeal it so they could continue to withhold evidence. Public defenders called them out. Forced to admit "no direct correlation." But the damage was already done.

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1225275531219914754?s=20

After bail reform passed, General Counsel to Nassau DA Madeline Singas, one of most ardent opponents of bail & discovery reform, was training prosecutors around NY on tricks & loopholes “to jail people that otherwise would be released under the new law.”cityandstateny.com/articles/polit…

Here is more information & some critical questions about the big apparent fearmongering lie by Nassau County DA's office led by Madeline Singas (& now nominee for the highest NY court) & the Nassau police department weaponizing a tragedy to kill reform.

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1225251176515502080?s=20

Here is more information on the "training" led by General Counsel to the now-nominee for the highest court in New York (Court of Appeals)--Nassau DA Madeline Singas--on how to keep locking people up pretrial despite what the new law requires:

https://twitter.com/ScottHech/status/1188986652955500545?s=20

Ill end for now w/ this: It's extremely concerning--scary frankly--that a person w/ so clear a love for incarceration, someone so willing to fearmonger to undermine reforms for justice, someone whose office leads trainings to twist the law, might soon be deciding what NY law is.

Typically, NY Court of Appeals judges must be confirmed by the Senate. Starting w/ Judiciary Committee. Join me in urging Dems to vote NO on DA Singas: @bradhoylman @jamaaltbailey
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